Who are the Contributors?

Arfasse
“Free Free” Oromiya is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and
former president of the International Oromo Youth Association. She
currently lives in New York City.

Roba Bulga
was born in the Fantalle region of Oromia and currently works in Addis
Ababa for Slow Food International.

Dr. Steven W. Thomas is a
professor of English at Wagner College and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
His essay “Taxing Tobacco and the Metonymies of Virtue” was published by
AMS Press in 2012 in a collection of essays entitled Global Economies,
Cultural Currencies of the Eighteenth Century.

Zelealem Aberra has published
one book and four audio CDs of poetry. He was born in Naqamtee, Oromia,
and currently lives in Helsinki, Finland with his wife and children.

Zakia Posey is a graduate student in anthropology at Michigan State University and is writing her dissertation on Oromo transnationalism.